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Pearl Jam's "Life Wasted" Video

The new music video for Pearl Jam's "Life Wasted" was released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license, so that people anywhere can legally copy, distribute, and share the clip. This is the first Pearl Jam video to be released in eight years and the first video produced by a major label to be CC-licensed. Pearl Jam and J Records are offering the video as a free download at Google Video through June 1st. After June 1st, the clip will be made available for sale.

Photo © Danny Clinch. Used with permission.

Diesel-U-Music

The 2006 edition of the popular international music contest Diesel–U-Music is open to unsigned artists playing rock, urban/hip-hop, and electronic music. All of the songs entered into this year's contest will be licensed under CC's Attribution-NonCommercial license, so they can be legally shared, reused, and remixed by people around the world. Go to diesel-u-music.com from now through June 25th to upload your best tracks and earn a chance to perform live in London and receive massive press and radio exposure. Past Diesel-U-Music winners include cut-and-paste superstar Mylo, multimedia mixers inside-us-all, and trilingual rapper Nikka — you could be next!

Remix My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

David Byrne and Brian Eno's landmark sampling album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was recently remastered and reissued with extensive liner notes, photos, and previously unreleased bonus tracks. To celebrate the release, Byrne and Eno launched bush-of-ghosts.com where the audio source files from two of the classic tracks from Bush of Ghosts — "A Secret Life" and "Help Me Somebody" — are offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license, so you can (subject to the download terms of use) use them to make remixes. The site allows uploads and user ratings, as well as the ability to share videos you make for music on Bush of Ghosts.

Ryuichi Sakamoto: stop-rokkasho.org

Esteemed composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has launched stop-rokkasho.org in response to the opening of a nuclear reprocessing plant in the Japanese village of Rokkasho. To lead off an international awareness campaign, Sakamoto wrote and recorded a track called "Rokkasho" — featuring rapper Shing02 and guitarist/producer Christian Fennesz — under the group name Team 6. The vocal and instrumental tracks have been made available under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus license, so that people can remix, sample, or remodel the track.